When I added the People Widget to a Sense panel, it asked what category to use and I picked Favorites for it to display, as I 'added' people (+) to the Fav panel I was offered their full list of activities so I could pick what I wanted that icon in Favs to do (call mobile, call land, SMS, whatever). The top one in the list was 'View Contact'. If you pick View Contact as the response when adding that person, you get their list and can decide what you wish to do (text, call, email...).
What I would like to see is a way to have that nice pretty panel switch between Categories. While in the panel I'd like to change it to Family or Work, whatever, and have it look nice like it does normally. The only way to see an alternate list is with a couple taps and then you get the normal ugly contact list.